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    t There were but a few who said ^ " What do we care far your ground-plots V " One is as good as another . It is enough for us that we every moment experience that the most benevolent wisdoiti fills the whole palace , and that by means of it , beauty and order and affluence are spread over the whole

    country /' These few met with a bad reception : * For when they some

    times ventured freely and gaily to throw a stronger and brighter light upon some one of . these-ground-plot ® , they were instantly accused , by those who had sworn to it r of trying to set fire to the pklace . But they did not regiard such imputations , and were on that very aceoufrt most fit to be associated to those who were

    working in the interior of the palace , and who had neither time nor inclination to take part in such controversies . It happened once , that as the contest concerning the groundplots had been laid aside , not terminated—at midnight the centinels uttered \ a loud cry of " Fire ! Fire ! - —the palace is on

    fire ! " ^ And what took place on this . Every one jumped from his bed , and as if the fire were not in the palace , but in his own house , ran home to save what was of most value to him—his ground-plot— " Let us but save thart ^ " thought every one to himself . The palace itself may with as little injury be burnt , as this . And thus they all ran with their ground-plots into the street ,

    where instead of hastening to tjhe assistance of the palace , every one wa $ eager to shew upon his own ground-plot where the palace was in all probability on fire . u See neighbour ! Here is the spot , it is here , we must try to put out the flames "— " No ! No ! it must be here . " " What are you dreaming of , " cries a

    third , it can never catch fire there , there is no danger on that side /* " But it is burning actually there , I say / ' "'I tell you I will not try to extinguish the fire in that place . " 4 < Nor I there ''— « Nor I there . " And thus amid these warm disputes , the palace might have actually been burnt to the ground , if it had been on fire . But the terrified centinels had taken an Aurora Borealis for aeon-. flagration .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/17/